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Spencer Tracy, Peter Falk, Jim Backus, Milton Berle, Norman Fell, Mickey Rooney, Buddy Hackett, Jonathan Winters, Edie Adams, Eddie 'Rochester' Anderson, Ben Blue, Joe E. Brown, Sid Caesar, Alan Carney, Chick Chandler, Barrie Chase, Lloyd Corrigan, William Demarest, Andy Devine, Selma Diamond, Paul Ford, Stan Freberg, Ethel Merman, Dorothy Provine, Phil Silvers, and Terry-Thomas in It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World (1963)

Dick Shawn: Sylvester Marcus

It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World

Dick Shawn credited as playing...

Sylvester Marcus

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Quotes13

  • Sylvester Marcus: I'm coming. That's what I'm here for. That's why you had me, Mama, to save you.
  • Sylvester Marcus: [speaking into the phone] Mama, who's with you? Where are you talking to me... Where are you?
  • Mrs. Marcus: [speaking into the phone] I'm with this truck driver at Peterson's garage in a place called Plaster City. And will you just shut up a minute so I can tell you what happened!
  • Sylvester Marcus: [speaking into the phone] Now listen, Mommy, you listen to me close. You stay right there, because I'm coming, Mom. I'm coming to get you right now, Mom.
  • Mrs. Marcus: [speaking into the phone] Will you *shut up and listen*?
  • Sylvester Marcus: [speaking into the phone] Mama, it's all right. Everything's gonna be all right, Mama. Your baby's coming to get ya. You just sit there. Sit there, relax, take it easy.
  • Mrs. Marcus: [speaking into the phone] Sylvester...
  • Sylvester Marcus: [speaking into the phone] I'm coming to get you, Mom!
  • Mrs. Marcus: [speaking into the phone] ... shut up and let me talk...
  • Sylvester Marcus: [speaking into the phone interrupting his mother] Everything is gonna be all right!
  • [Sylvester hangs up]
  • Lennie Pike: [to Mrs. Marcus] Well?
  • Mrs. Marcus: So he's coming here. And I'm not to worry about a thing, because "everything is going to be all right!"
  • Mrs. Marcus: [to Emmeline] Exactly like your father: a big, stupid, muscle-headed moron!
  • Sylvester Marcus: [Benji and Dingy run by] Who are they?
  • Mrs. Marcus: I don't know.
  • Sylvester Marcus: From this morning?
  • Mrs. Marcus: Yes.
  • Sylvester Marcus: [Captain Culpeper goes by] Who is he?
  • Mrs. Marcus: I don't know.
  • Sylvester Marcus: [Otto Meyer runs by] Who is he?
  • Mrs. Marcus: I don't know.
  • Sylvester Marcus: Mama, how many people are mixed up in this thing?
  • Sylvester Marcus: [as the two cab drivers run by] Who are they? Cabbies? Mama, this thing is like a convention.
  • Melville Crump: Look, why don't we just start digging for it?
  • J. Russell Finch: Well suppose someone comes along? What do we tell them?
  • Monica Crump: Well, we could tell them that we're here on an archeological expedition.
  • Melville Crump: [annoyed] Aah!
  • Sylvester Marcus: We don't tell them anything. We tell them to hit the road or we beat their brains in!
  • [Pike and Sylvester are digging into a hole that suddenly becomes too close]
  • Sylvester Marcus: Wait a minute, wait a minute. There's not enough room, Man, you're bugging me. You're bugging me.
  • Lennie Pike: What are you talking about 'bugging'?
  • Sylvester Marcus: Cut out, cut out.
  • Lennie Pike: What's this 'cut out' talk?
  • Sylvester Marcus: Out, baby. Out, baby. Out!
  • Lennie Pike: Don't call me a baby!
  • All: Would you just get out? Get on with it!
  • Mrs. Marcus: Sylvester!
  • Sylvester Marcus: Mama!
  • Mrs. Marcus: Why couldn't you listen? Why couldn't you shut up when I was trying to tell you to listen?
  • J. Algernon Hawthorne: Have a care, that chap's run absolutely amok!
  • Benjy Benjamin: [in a hospital in bandages and casts] It's all your fault. It's all your fault right from the beginning to the end.
  • J. Algernon Hawthorne: You know, even for a policeman, your behavior was ruddy outrageous.
  • Sylvester Marcus: Yeah, you could have taken a fair share like the rest of us, but no. You had to go and wrap up the whole scene, baby.
  • Ding Bell: We had three hundred and fifty-thousand bucks right in our hands.
  • Melville Crump: Fourteen into three hundred and fifty-thousand dollars...
  • Ding Bell: [groans] Oh, shut up!
  • Sylvester Marcus: You could've taken a fair share like the rest of us but no, you had to grab up the whole scene, baby.
  • Mrs. Marcus: "No matter what you've all done today, you're really not criminals". Ha! Of all the snooty, patronizing...
  • Mrs. Marcus: [to Pike] You're stepping on my foot!
  • Sylvester Marcus: Would you get off Mama's foot?
  • [last lines]
  • [Mrs. Marcus, Emmeline and Monica enter the hospital room where all the men are in traction, their entrance right after Benjy had thrown a banana peel on the floor]
  • Mrs. Marcus: [yelling] Now see here, you idiots, it's all your fault, because if you hadn't...
  • [Mrs. Marcus slips on the banana peel and falls back-first on the floor]
  • Sylvester Marcus: Mama!
  • [all the hospitalized men, except Sylvester and Captain Culpeper, burst out laughing uproariously as Mrs. Marcus is put on a stretcher and taken away]
  • Mrs. Marcus: [yelling] Don't you dare touch me! Get away from me! Let me go! Leave me alone...
  • [Captain Culpeper joins the laughter]
  • Sylvester Marcus: That's my mommy. She's gone crazy or something. *Maybe rape, oh*!
  • Sylvester Marcus: Mommy, you got nothing to worry about. Your baby's coming. Your baby's coming to save you, Mama!
  • Sylvester Marcus: Ha-ha! Go! Go baby, go! Ha-ha! Yes, yes! Ha-ha! Yes, yes! Ha-ha! Yeah, yeah! Go, baby! Ah, yes! Ha-ha! Ha-ha! Oh! Ha-ha-ha! That's it baby. Don't stop. Go! Wow!

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